New builder from the UK

[Grip_Runner]

Hi all I'm a new member from good old sunny England. I'm building my first rc model a Scania 620r as I need something to build now that the family has banned me racing. Its going to be a light metallic blue and grey and will eventually have a low loader trailer with either a racing truck on the back or a digger haven't decided yet. If this goes well then I will be building another for my dads birthday but that will be done in the gold star livery. I started building it at the weekend having bough the main kit and a mfu but I didn't get the servos battery's or remote as I was told I wouldn't need them for a while. Read the manual and they are the few first steps in the manual so do you guys have any recommendations? I have been told that some remotes can be programmed to run multiple models, is this function generally reserved for high end controllers and is it practice to set up?

thanks for any help I will probably need a lot